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China sets air quality target for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei

China sets air quality target for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei

Xinhua 2019-10-16 20:08:22

Chinese authorities on Wednesday released an action plan for air pollution control in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and nearby areas, setting specific targets for the autumn and winter season. The...

Chinese Premier Li stresses stable economic growth

Chinese Premier Li stresses stable economic growth

Xinhua 2019-10-16 19:04:45

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stressed deepening reform and opening-up to facilitate steady economic growth and continuously improve people's livelihood. Li, also a member of the Standing Committee of t...

Malaysia will work diplomatically with India on palm oil import

Malaysia will work diplomatically with India on palm oil import

Reuters 2019-10-16 16:30:02

Malaysia will work diplomatically with India if India decides to restrict imports of Malaysian palm oil, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday. “If the (Indian) government launched...

Militants, security forces exchange fire in Kashmir

Militants, security forces exchange fire in Kashmir

Reuters 2019-10-16 12:19:40

A gun battle erupted between security forces and militants in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, two police sources said, the first since mobile phone links were restored in the region in an effort to resto...

China says US House should stop interfering in HK

China says US House should stop interfering in HK

-- 2019-10-16 11:53:15

China’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that Beijing resolutely opposed new measures passed by the US House of Representatives related to the Hong Kong protests and urged lawmakers to stop in...

Thai human traffickers flout 99pc of court orders to compensate victims

Thai human traffickers flout 99pc of court orders to compensate victims

-- 2019-10-15 17:57:33

Human traffickers in Thailand have ignored court orders to compensate victims in more than 99pc of cases in recent years, fuelling fears that many survivors could be re-trafficked, data obtained exclu...

China's first homegrown polar icebreaker to start its maiden voyage

China's first homegrown polar icebreaker to start its maiden voyage

Xinhua 2019-10-15 16:50:51

China's first domestically made polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, will start its maiden voyage to the Antarctic from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen Tuesday. Xuelong 2 will set sail...

Trade data shows resilience of China’s economy

Trade data shows resilience of China’s economy

Global Times 2019-10-15 16:42:05

Data released by the General Administration of Customs Monday shows China's total trade amounted to 22.91 trillion yuan ($3.24 trillion) in the first three quarters of the year, growing 2.8 per cent f...

Japan typhoon death toll jumps to 66

Japan typhoon death toll jumps to 66

-- 2019-10-15 11:48:28

The death toll in the worst typhoon to hit Japan for decades climbed to 66 on Tuesday as rescuers slogged through mud and debris in an increasingly grim search for the missing, and as thousands of hom...

Economic Watch: China secures resilient trade growth amid soft global demands

Economic Watch: China secures resilient trade growth amid soft global demands

Xinhua 2019-10-14 18:24:31

China managed to maintain generally steady trade growth in the first three quarters of this year though global uncertainties weighed on trade demands. The country's foreign trade rose 2.8 per cent ye...

China, Nepal upgrade ties

China, Nepal upgrade ties

Global Times 2019-10-14 17:17:56

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday during his visit in Nepal that anyone attempting to split China will be crushed and any external force backing such attempts will be deemed by the Chinese p...

Cooking gas cylinder blast kills 10 in India

Cooking gas cylinder blast kills 10 in India

-- 2019-10-14 12:32:19

At least 10 people died after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in a house in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials say. The building collapsed due to the blast, which took place in a t...

Kurds reach deal with Syrian army to resist Turkish assault

Kurds reach deal with Syrian army to resist Turkish assault

-- 2019-10-14 12:03:43

The Kurds in Syria say the Syrian government has agreed to send its army to the northern border to try to halt Turkey's offensive against them. Syrian state media earlier reported that government for...

Kashmir situation will normalise in four months, Modi assures

Kashmir situation will normalise in four months, Modi assures

Reuters 2019-10-14 10:28:42

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said it would take four months for Jammu and Kashmir to return to normal after his government stripped the state of its special status in August and imposed har...

Viewing trade talks progress with rationality, calmness

Viewing trade talks progress with rationality, calmness

Global Times 2019-10-13 19:05:07

The new round of high-level economic and trade consultations between China and the US concluded Friday in Washington. US President Donald Trump met with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He. Information releas...

China issues guideline to deepen reform of undergraduate education

China issues guideline to deepen reform of undergraduate education

Xinhua 2019-10-13 18:59:17

China's Ministry of Education has issued a guideline to deepen the reform of the country's undergraduate education and teaching and improve the quality of universities' talent-cultivation work. The g...

Russia has very friendly relations with Saudi crown prince: Putin

Russia has very friendly relations with Saudi crown prince: Putin

-- 2019-10-13 18:08:49

President Vladimir Putin said Russia has “very friendly personal relations” with Saudi Crown Prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman. Putin was speaking in an interview with Arab br...

Japan deploys military rescuers as massive typhoon hits

Japan deploys military rescuers as massive typhoon hits

Reuters 2019-10-13 17:31:27

Japan sent tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers on Sunday to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the worst typhoons to hit the country in recent history, which killed 2...

Pakistan will try to facilitate Iran-Saudi talks

Pakistan will try to facilitate Iran-Saudi talks

Reuters 2019-10-13 17:27:57

Pakistan will do its utmost to enable talks between arch regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday in Tehran, adding that he will travel on to Saudi Ara...

Saudi king approves US military deployment

Saudi king approves US military deployment

Reuters 2019-10-13 13:48:48

Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince have approved the deployment of additional US troops and equipment, after an attack last month on the kingdom’s oil facilities, state news agency SPA r...

Turkish-led forces advance into Syrian border town

Turkish-led forces advance into Syrian border town

Reuters 2019-10-13 11:47:06

Turkish-backed Syrian rebels advanced into the border town of Ras al Ain in northeast Syria on Saturday (local time) but it was unclear how far, with Turkey saying it had taken the town centre, and Ku...

Fierce typhoon pounds Tokyo, 10 dead

Fierce typhoon pounds Tokyo, 10 dead

-- 2019-10-13 11:26:37

Ten people were killed and 16 were missing after the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in decades paralysed Tokyo, causing rivers to overflow and leaving almost half a million homes without power, pu...

India to restore Kashmir mobile phone lines

India to restore Kashmir mobile phone lines

-- 2019-10-12 18:27:10

India said on Saturday it would partially restore mobile phone services in Kashmir on Monday, more than two months after it imposed a communications clampdown in the Himalayan region before stripping...

Xi, Modi meet to promote China-India mutual learning for shared prosperity

Xi, Modi meet to promote China-India mutual learning for shared prosperity

Xinhua 2019-10-12 18:26:25

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed here Friday to promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations to achieve joint development and prosperity. Xi an...

Xi's visit to Nepal will boost ties with China: Nepali PM

Xi's visit to Nepal will boost ties with China: Nepali PM

-- 2019-10-12 18:08:51

Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to Nepal will be a historic one that will lift Nepal-China ties to a new level, Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli said here Friday. Nepal and China e...

One killed in Japan as typhoon approaches

One killed in Japan as typhoon approaches

-- 2019-10-12 13:45:46

One man died and more than a million in Japan were advised to evacuate as a powerful typhoon was set to make landfall late on Saturday, bringing with it the heaviest rain and winds in 60 years. A man...

Imran Khan backs Turkey's Syria invasion

Imran Khan backs Turkey's Syria invasion

-- 2019-10-11 21:32:18

Pakistan's Prime Minister has offered rare backing for Turkey's invasion of Syria, a deadly cross-border incursion that started this week and has already displaced tens of thousands, according to AP....

Modi, Jinping eye new border security steps in summit talks

Modi, Jinping eye new border security steps in summit talks

-- 2019-10-11 18:08:12

Chinese President Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to agree new security measures along their unsettled border during a summit on Friday, officials said, in an effort t...

Iran oil tanker hit by two missiles off Saudi coast

Iran oil tanker hit by two missiles off Saudi coast

-- 2019-10-11 14:22:58

An Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck by two missiles off the Saudi port of Jeddah on Friday, Iranian state television reported, quoting the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) which owns the vessel....

Pakistan arrests four over Mumbai terror attacks

Pakistan arrests four over Mumbai terror attacks

Reuters 2019-10-11 11:38:25

Pakistani authorities on Thursday arrested four aides of Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed, the suspected mastermind of a four-day militant attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in 2008, on terrorism financin...